///FINAL PROJECT///

For the final project, I am organizing and digitizing a portion of the photography collection at the Elisabet Ney Museum. Since I work there, I am already familiar with the museum’s archives and accession records. The downside is that none of these items have been digitized, and on top of that, many of the photographs have not been assigned an accession number.

Therefore, my goal is to establish a method for organizing the photographs into a digital database, which will also consist of Ney's sculptures and personal effects. In addition, each photograph will get a new accession number which will link it to a file on the computer and a file in the archive. Once the accession number is assigned, it will be entered with the metadata, onto an Excel spreadsheet. In the future, when the museum begins to utilize PastPerfect, all of the metadata and scanned images will then be uploaded into this program.

Since, this is going to be an ongoing project, my main objective is to understand the benefits or failures to my approach. That way, I can amend any flaws in this system and improve the initiatives that I am putting forth. While these guidelines will represent my own hypothetical approach, I believe they will benefit the organization of the collection, or at the very least, provoke discussion for new methodologies.